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Using this logic, Tee Ball is more difficult than baseball. Tee Ball. In case you are unfamiliar with Tee Ball, it is a sport played primarily by 5-7 year-olds who are not yet ready to play baseball.

Something tells me that it's easier to hit a ball off a tee than to hit Roger Clemens' split fingered fastball.



Wow! The degree of difficulty in this sport is through the roof! Good point Gutter Snipe!

Next....

 

in response to an earlier post. i consistently drive around 230-260. my longest ever being 285.

 

1. In golf, you have to play your foul balls.
2. In golf, you only get one chance.
3. I'm sorry that you don't play it - you're missing out on the most challenging and rewarding sport in the world.

 

Wow, and football lineman use their steroid-induced mass to push against another similarly immovable mass. What skill!

How about those quarterbacks? Someone hands them a ball from between their legs, they take a couple of steps and throw the ball (which is not 'moving independently' at the time either, but at least it's in their hand). That's really hard to push your body against someone elses! Or to have someone hand you a ball then you throw it! Through the roof! Or how about soccer? Kicking a ball all day...wow, huh!

You simplification of golf is no less ridiculous. You also, as usual, ignore any issues that you cannot respond to.

 

Are you really not sorry about that?

 

You forgot that in Golf you call the penalties on yourself, now that's sportsmanship. That's honor.

 

I know I am. I wish everyone in the world would play golf.

I can understand how you guys might think that golf isn't a sport. If you were to ever try to play (walking the course), I am confident you would completely reverse your opinion.

-- droxford

 

So....what's everyone's handicap?

 

I prefer not to keep score.

 

I heard somewhere that walking and carrying your clubs for 18 holes on an average length course (not a par 3 course), one would burn around 1500 calories. Yeah, no physical exertion there.

 

HDCP: 14.6, highest it has been in a while. I was an 8 in college.

 

Then how do you measure yourself against other golfers?

 

by height

 

Beer drinking contest after the final hole.

 

OK fellers...how do you calculate your handicap?????

 

mulder gets a point.

but I would definitely play golf with codell.

 

I've never used a cart ~ sorry it's a game.

 

Is Frisbee golf a sport? You walk 18 holes, use specialized equipment, and it requires a high degree of skill...

 

This is almost as condescending and presumptuous as the people that say those who don't like soccer just don't understand it. I have played golf quite a bit, and I am in horrible shape, but it was never that physically challenging for me. Playing a couple of games of full court basketball or a single game of tackle football was much tougher. I have to agree with the not a sport crowd. Billiards requires skill, concentration, and walking, and a single mistake can ruin a whole tournament for you, but I wouldn't say that was a sport either. Except for the walking, the same could be said about chess, or the Madden Challenge.